This first blog post for Travelling Tuesday is just so predictable of me, I apologise.

California.

Such a typical place for a teenage girl to want to visit, right?
I agree. But I have talked about wanting to go to America for years and years and years and this is one of the places that I would most like to visit.

First of all, the name is beautiful. Imagine being able to say “I live in Long Beach”. It just sounds pretty. Then, we also have the obvious fact that it looks absolutely stunning.

I mean.. come on.

I read from a travel website that “Located in the heart of Southern California, Long Beach blends the urban sophistication of a big city with the relaxed atmosphere of a beach resort. Discover diverse hotels, world-class attractions, cutting-edge museums, award-winning restaurants and a thriving, multi-faceted arts and culture scene. Bordered by the Pacific Ocean, with 5.5 miles of sandy beach front, plus miles of inland bays and waterways, Long Beach basks in the warm glow from our year-round California sun.”

Perfect.

Things To Do in Long Beach

– Queen Mary Ocean Liner
– The Aquarium of The Pacific
– The Pike (An amusement park, I think!)
– Visit Naples (Naples is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States, built on three islands located in Alamitos Bay. The islands are divided by canals which open into the bay. Most of the streets on the island have Italianate names)
– The Walter Pyramid
– Soviet Submarine B-427
– Shopping (obviously)

Where to Stay in Long Beach

Hyatt The Pike:

Renaissance Long Beach Hotel:

Hotel Maya:

Writing this blog post did not help my desperation to visit this country. At All.

This morning I woke up later than I thought I would. Not that much later, about 8.30. Fifteen minuets later, I receive a snapchat. A Snapchat from Becca saying she’s off to Jesus Culture. I am so excited for them because I imagine its going to be awesome but I’m sad I’m not going. Peta, I can’t wait to read your blog post about it!!

So once Rachael got up we cycled to Asda on a doughnut hunt for going to the garden. We found some.. and also came out of the shop with Yum yums and fruit too! I’ll show you some of the pictures I took 🙂

You know, its my birthday in 2 weeks!! 2 weeks… I thought it was 4 haha! There may be a small chance that I can get a camera for my birthday. Sadly, it can’t be an overly expensive camera because we don’t have that much money but I did find one. Now, baring in mind, I have never gone camera searching before (my Dad chose my digital one) but I do know that many photographers have Canon cameras so I figured that’s a good make? I looked in the Argos catalogue and found a bargain. They have a camera that was around £250 and is now £140. I know I know.. I was thinking the same thing… that’s too cheap, it can’t be good! Then, I youtubed it 😀 and searched reviews. Surprisingly, it had a 5 star review and youtube reviews are recommending it. It has amazing zoom and focus which are two factors I like to keep in mind.

I do have a camera just now but I think that it doesn’t produce the quality of pictures that I’d like. I really enjoy photography as a hobby. Saying this, today at school we got told about different courses at college that are once a week just for 2 hours or so. So, naturally, I looked for photography and it was there 🙂 So, maybe I will do that. It’s never a good sign when I’d rather use my phone camera than my digital one. Maybe some people know?

Before I begin this post (officially), I copied this title from ‘Daily Post’ I thought it sounded pretty! haha!

So, I have been bad with the whole ‘new ideas’ thing, I know.. but today I was looking at my list of what I could write about for Designer Dienstag and I had wrote ‘Scrapbook Pages’. As you may or may not know, I have a scrapbook. I used to scrapbook every single day and I love it but this slowly turned into to playing guitar and singing at lease once a day. Which I also love. Seriously, you can not hang out at my house for the day with out me playing guitar at least once. Saying this, I looked through my scrapbook today which was in my art drawer. I haven’t looked at it in ages so I started from the beginning to the end. I miss scrapbooking. So, as I flicked page by page I realized that I have so many letters and messages that people have given to me. I keep everything people write to me and draw me 😀 I also realized how much more meaningful everything in my Scrapbook was as time went on. In the beginning, I didn’t have a clue what to put in.

To get to the point, today I read all the letters I have and they brought a tear to my eye. Everyone who wrote that we will be friends forever or that I am precious to them just made me want to give them a huge hug 😀 I mean, people have a whole page dedicated to their message or letter. They are all very important to me ❤

Just a quick post to let you know that I should be doing a 2 day Vlogblog because tomorrow morning at 8am I am leaving to meet Sophie at the train station and head to Aberdeen for the night. We are staying with my friend (Sophie’s sister), Samantha in her apartment she shares with 2 of her University friends. It should be fun and I will take you all with me 😀 I hope I can have a good connection and take some pictures too! So, tomorrow morning first on my list in to buy a Caramel Chai Tea Latte from Costa 😀See you there!!

Yesterday, I spent the day with my friend Rachael. Now, being the same size of clothes definitely has it’s advantages! Rachael was going to give away or sell some of her clothes and I took a sneaky peak and me being me, found something I like. You all the the voice “Rachaeeeeeel (High pitched voice) you know how… your giving these away anyway, fancy giving these couple to me?” lol!! And the kindness of her said yes and I came home with a few pieces of Vintage. Is vintage when it is second hand? I just like the word lol!! And the look of Vintage bedrooms. *hint* dressing table *hint* 😀 So anyway, I’ll just go ahead and show you the beauties 😀

Guess my favorite……….

Its the 2nd one 😀 Today after longboarding I was way, way to warm in my jeans so I wore one of Rachaels dresses 😀 I know, the photos aren’t edited but this one is!! 😀

Today was completely and utterly touristy. It was so good! I love being a tourist 😀
First of all we went to Rodel Bahn just outside the well known town of Füssen. This isn’t my favorite Rodel Bahn because a lot of tourists go so slow just to enjoy the view. I think we are still going to my favorite Rodel Bahn before our holidays are over.

Next we went on a Gondel up the mountain abd had the most beautiful view!! Stunning!
Afterwards we headed into Füssen to roam about the town and also buy some post cards. In Austria they have cheap petrol so we took the 10 minute de tour to also say that we’ve been in Austria and to take thw opportunity of cheap fuel.

Coming later in the day we went on a horse and cart to Neuschwanstein which is a pretty castle that the Disney castles were inspired by. Of course I took loads of pictures. I mean loads so just some will be below.

We only maneged ti have dinner at Cafe Central (our favorite) at around 8.30pm. It was such a busy day but also one of my favorites so far:)

Today we didn’t plan anything enormous but it did end up pretty busy. I needed a few things so I set of to a place called Schongau where I had already seen some things. Then, I came to Oma Ingrid and lay in the Sun for a while testing my new earphones which by the way are amazing! They are Philips and weren’t that expencive. The bass is so good and I don’t even have to turn it up half way before it blocks out any other surrounding noises.

We then took a trip into the village and I bought a shirt (you will see it in the pictures!) Katharina has the same one but in red and I of course have it in blue:D 7,50€!! What a bargin.

We walked back, ate Dinner and Katharina and I also sang and played a little guitar. We have two songs which we’d like to perfect. My Dads auntie then came to pick us up for ice cream. Yum!:)

I am back at Oma Ingrids and we have to wait for our friends and their cousins to drive here from the airport before we can leave because we have the keys for the guest houses they are staying at.

Apparently, its meant to be 30 degrees tomorrow. If so, I will be impressed! I really want to row on the boat again. So fun!